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Assayii Lake Fire at 12,105 acres on June 17, 2014

CHIEF OF STAFF ARBIN MITCHELL Fire started on June 13, 2014, and was contained at 40 acres by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Forestry Department’s Navajo Scouts, Type 2 wildland firefighter. But high winds started late Saturday and blew the fire out of control. On Sunday, tribal officials met with BIA officials and a decision […]

Zero containment of 11,000 acre Assayii Lake Fire on Navajo Reservation at 7 p.m. June 16

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, At about 7 p.m. today, June 16, 2014, the Assayii Lake Fire was zero contained and had burned about 11,000 acres of land to the northeast of Navajo, N.M., east of Crystal, N.M. and west of Sheep Springs and Naschitti, N.M. The fire started on Friday the 13th in the Camp Assayii recreational […]

Asaayii Lake Fire at 11,000 acres on Navajo Reservation, zero containment

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I just arrived in Window Rock, Ariz., from Crystal, N.M., where the Southwest Incident Management Team 3 and local Navajo Nation government officials met with more than a hundred community members of all ages about the Asaayii Lake Fire, which on Friday the 13th. At 1:30 p.m., SW Incident Management Team reported that […]